Hong Kong legislature opens with pro-democracy bloc set to resign

Empty seats of pro-democracy legislators, top, are seen at Legislative Chamber in Hong Kong on Thursday (Vincent Yu/AP)

Hong Kong’s legislature opened on Thursday ahead of the planned mass resignation of its pro-democracy bloc, one day after the government ousted four of its members.

One of the pro-democracy lawmakers, Lam Cheuk-ting, unfurled a banner from a balcony of the legislative council building saying the city’s leader Carrie Lam had brought disaster to Hong Kong and its people.